Can slugs cry?

Slugs don't scream or cry out, but they do have pain receptors like most other creatures. Therefore, the act of desiccating their entire body from the inside out like a batch of soggy french fries is not exactly the most humane way of dealing with them.
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Do slugs have feelings?

"It's one of those things that drives you to avoid those [painful] things in the future," he said. But animals with simple nervous systems, like lobsters, snails and worms, do not have the ability to process emotional information and therefore do not experience suffering, say most researchers.
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How do slugs scream?

Slugs do have a simple protective reaction system, but they don't scream when salt is poured on them. Any hissing sound is caused by the action of the water being drawn out of the slug.
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Do slugs feel love?

In summary, snails might have the biochemical potential to feel love, but they might not have a socially-mediated evolutionary reason to feel love. They engage in reproductive behaviors, but we don't know whether they feel love or pleasure during reproduction.
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Do snails have tears?

Snails do not cry in the way people cry, from pain, fear, or 'gunk' in the eye. However, in a strange twist, snails are almost constantly crying because their entire body is similar to an eye. Snails, like eyes, are soft, unprotected sensory collecting tissue masses that require constant hydration.
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Do slugs poop?

After a slug has eaten and digested food (a wide variety of plants, fungi, earthworms and carrion), a mucus string of scat leaves through its anus, which is hidden under the leathery patch called a mantle, located just behind its head.
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Do slugs have a heart?

Circulation and Excretion

A snail's heart has two chambers, one ventricle and one atrium. It is located in the heart bag, the so-called pericardium. The heart bag is also important to the snail's excretion, meaning the disposal of indigestible material usually rich in nitrogen.
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Do slugs sleep?

Slugs will sleep on and off for several hours at a time but then might stay awake for 30 hours without a break. Slugs may also hibernate, depending on the weather conditions. They will stay active when temperatures remain above 5 degrees Celsius / 41 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Are slugs blind?

They do not see colour and form as well as we do but they can still make out shades of light and dark. Although the eyes are well developed they do not have a complex method of focus. They can retract their eye tentacles to protect their eyes from potentially harmful touch.
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Do slugs make good pets?

If you are looking for an unusual pet, a slug is a great choice. Slugs are easy to care for and they are good for both older and younger kids. This helps your kids gain responsibility. You can keep a slug in an aquarium.
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Is pouring salt on a slug cruel?

Yes, it is cruel to salt a slug. Pouring salt on a slug triggers osmosis and causes the slug to die a slow, painful death of dehydration. Humans would experience a similar effect by pouring salt into their open eyes.
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Can slugs make noises?

They scream and squeal when in pain and can even whine, just like humans do. Slugs and snails do not make comparable sounds. They seem to endure everything quietly. This makes it harder to recognize their pain and to treat them with compassion.
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Do slugs have a brain?

Aside from its availability in the gardens of Princeton, the slug has a brain and a nervous system that can be kept alive for several days in test tubes. In addition, the neurons, or nerve cells of its brain, range from 200 to 300 microns (millionths of a meter) in diameter, making them visible to the naked eye.
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Do slugs have memory?

But biologists from UCLA have recently found that memory transfer is in fact possible—at least in sea slugs. In the study, researchers in Professor David Glanzman's lab examined memory in sea slugs using something called the siphon withdrawal reflex.
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Do slugs have any intelligence?

For artificial intelligence (AI) to get any smarter, it needs first to be as intelligent as one of the simplest creatures in the animal kingdom: the sea slug. A new study has found that a material can mimic the sea slug's most essential intelligence features.
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Do slugs have willies?

Both slugs then push out and entwine two overly-sized penises from openings on the side of their head, before exchanging sperm that may later fertilise each of their eggs. Or, perhaps be eaten.
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Are slugs deaf?

The sensory organs of gastropods (snails and slugs) include olfactory organs, eyes, statocysts and mechanoreceptors. Gastropods have no sense of hearing.
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Do slugs have 3000 teeth?

NatGeoKIDS on Twitter: "Slugs have 3,000 teeth and 4 noses.
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Can slugs drown?

Yes, slugs do drown.
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Do slugs have eyes?

A slug has two retractable pairs of tentacles. The upper pair of tentacles are called the optical tentacles and are the eyes of a slug. The optical tentacles have light sensitive eyespots on the end and can be re-grown if lost. These are also used for smell.
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Can slugs jump?

Some species of slugs and snails can thrash their tail from side to side, twitching with such vigor that the creatures seem to jump. In some cases, they can become airborne briefly.
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How much are slugs for teeth?

For people like that who are looking for solid gold slugs, we do custom fit sets from $200 to $1800 and up.
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What color Is slug blood?

Slug blood is green. Really. There is a fascinating article about the reasons why many invertebrates have green blood here.
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Do slugs pee?

Terrestrial snails and slugs excrete uric acid but may also excrete ammonia when living in moist surroundings.
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Do snails feel pain?

Snails may have opioid responses and mussels release morphine when confronted with noxious stimuli. Both reactions suggest that these animals do, in fact, feel pain. While mollusks don't have brains per se, they do exhibit some nervous system centralization. They have several pairs of ganglia connected to a nerve cord.
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